Jehudi
Jehudi , in the Bible, officer of Jehoiakim's court.
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You don't know? ask the courts. (Court of Appeals decision on the rights of homosexuals)
Magazine article from: National Review; 9/6/1985; ; 700+ words
; ...will not necessarily work: Bob Jones University reads the Bible as proscribing miscegenation, which may be a screwy way to read the Bible, but it was presumably a part of the First Amendment to permit people to read the Bible according to their own lights. Perhaps one day soon the Supreme Court ...
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Ninth Circuit OKs jury's use of the Bible in death penalty deliberations.
Magazine article from: Trial; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...to consider [the Bible] at trial, let alone...appeal before the court. Stevie Lamar Fields...counsel. The district court granted the writ...jury's use of the Bible notes offended the...referring to the Bible, a juror is trying...the U.S. Supreme Court. Although he concedes...
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Teaching or preaching: battle over the Bible in public schools.(DEBATE)
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication; 3/9/2009; 700+ words
; ...monitors how religion influences policy. Critics say the Bible law doesn't provide specific enough teaching guidelines...WHAT DO YOU THINK? Should public school students study the Bible as literature? Let us know at edce@weeklyreader.com. Get...refer to? Do you think students should be able to study the ...
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Constitutional literacy: why American schools don't need Bible classes.(Editorial)
Magazine article from: Church & State; 5/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...approach raises. First off, there is no such thing as the Bible. Rather, there are translations of that work--lots of them...version are we to use in public schools? The number of Bible translations should not surprise anyone. There are, after...fact, our country has a long history of arguing about the ...
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Is the Bible true?(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 10/11/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...claim entails two secondary claims. First: to say that the Bible is true is to say that what it means is true--and what...shaped by (among other things) the genres in which the Bible is expressed, the attitudes it takes to history, and the...acknowledging complexity is a way not of hedging commitment to the ...
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A guide for teaching Bible in public schools.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 12/1/1999; 457 words
; ...Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and the National Bible Association. It is an historic day when we can announce a broad consensus on teaching about the Bible in our public schools, said Chuck Stetson, vice-chairman of the New York-based National Bible Association, formerly called the ...
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Edward D. Herbert and Emanuel Tov, eds. The Bible as Book: the Hebrew Bible and the Judean Desert Discoveries.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Herbert and Emanuel Toy, eds. The Bible as Book: The Hebrew Bible and the Judean Desert Discoveries. London and New Castle...the Dead Sea Scrolls or, more generally about where the Bible came from. It seems that popular rumour credits the scrolls...or denying all manner of things about the origin of the ...
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Court rulings on religion. (News)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 6/16/1993; 700+ words
; THE U.S. Supreme Court in several recent rulings has given attention to the perpetually...midst of the public high school graduation season, the court has handed a partial, and perhaps only temporary, victory...sponsored prayer in the schools. At the same time, the court solidified its line of reasoning on ...
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Bible as book: the manuscript tradition.
Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada; 9/22/1999; 700+ words
; ...III and Kimberly Van Kampen, eds. The Bible as Book: The Manuscript Tradition. London...55.00 US. ISBN 1-884718-38-8. The Bible as Book: The Manuscript Tradition is...Antiquities (Grand Haven, Michigan) at Hampton Court in May 1995. The Scriptorium is the institutional...was to examine the ways in which ...
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The Bible makes a comeback in public schools.(CHURCH AND STATE)
Magazine article from: The Humanist; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...great appeal. The U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled that objective...fact, in its landmark 1963 Bible-reading decision, Abington...School District v. Schempp, the court majority lauded such instruction...that school boards adopt their Bible-as-history and Bible-as-literature...government. ...
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Jehudi Ashmun
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Jehudi Ashmun Jehudi Ashmun (1794-1828) was the white American governor of Liberia Colony...settlement at Monrovia to survive armed attacks from local Africans. Jehudi Ashmun was born on a farm near Champlain, N.Y., on April 21, 1794. He...
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Monrovia
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names
...North America to return to Africa (see Liberia ). Laid out on land bought from a local chief by a young Methodist clergyman, Jehudi Ashmun, he called it Christopolis ‘City of Christ’, but in 1824 the ACS recommended that it should be renamed...
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American Colonization Society
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...United States. In 1821 an agent, Eli Ayres, and Lt. R. F. Stockton of the U.S. Navy purchased land in Africa, where subsequently Jehudi Ashmun and Ralph R. Gurley laid the foundations of Liberia . The colonization movement came under the bitter attack of the abolitionists...
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Nethaniah
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, in the Bible. 1 Father of Ishmael 6. 2 Temple choir leader. 3 One who accompanied the teachers of the Law. 4 Father of Jehudi.
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